| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: of having seen better days, and have doubtless figured in some
of the old palaces of Little Britain. They seem to me to keep
together, and to look down with sovereign contempt upon
their leathern-bottomed neighbors: as I have seen decayed
gentry carry a high head among the plebeian society with which
they were reduced to associate. The whole front of my sitting-
room is taken up with a bow-window, on the panes of which
are recorded the names of previous occupants for many
generations, mingled with scraps of very indifferent
gentlemanlike poetry, written in characters which I can scarcely
decipher, and which extol the charms of many a beauty of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: "MUST have been; mind that! said Tristram.
"After all," suggested Newman, after a silence, "she may be in trouble
about something else."
"If it is something else, then it is something worse," said Mrs. Tristram,
with rich decision.
Newman was silent a while, and seemed lost in meditation.
"Is it possible," he asked at last, "that they do that sort
of thing over here? that helpless women are bullied into marrying
men they hate?"
"Helpless women, all over the world, have a hard time of it,"
said Mrs. Tristram. "There is plenty of bullying everywhere."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: detonated over another Japanese city, Nagasaki. Two days later, the
Japanese Government informed the United States of its decision to end
the war. On 2 September 1945, the Japanese Empire officially
surrendered to the Allied Governments, bringing World War II to an
end.
In the years devoted to the development and construction of a nuclear
weapon, scientists and technicians expanded their knowledge of nuclear
fission and developed both the gun-type and the implosion mechanisms
to release the energy of a nuclear chain reaction. Their knowledge,
however, was only theoretical. They could be certain neither of the
extent and effects of such a nuclear chain reaction, nor of the
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